Is Obiter legal advice?

No, Obiter is a study platform for law students. It helps you learn and revise the law; it doesn't advise on real-world legal problems.

Which qualifications does it cover?

The LLB, GDL/PGDL and SQE preparation, with module coverage across core UK subjects.

What does the free tier actually include?

Dashboard, calendar and study timer, manual flashcards, statute search and the Bulletin, free forever, no card required.

Does the AI make things up?

No. Every AI feature draws exclusively from Obiter's verified database of UK law, over 5,000 pre-briefed cases, so it cites real authorities, never inventions.

How it works

How Obiter works.

Obiter is a study platform for UK law students, built on a curated database of real cases, live legislation, and the practice tools you need to revise. Everything you study is verified material you can actually cite in an exam.

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Built on real
UK legal material.

10,000+UK & EU cases and legal concepts, verified

Livestatutes seeded from legislation.gov.uk

Obiter is a single workspace for everything a UK law student actually does: revising cases, looking up statutes, practising SBAQs and essays, tracking modules and deadlines. The point is to put the materials and the tools in one place so you can spend your time studying instead of switching between five tabs.

Obiter draws from a manually verified database of over 10,000 UK and EU law cases and legal concepts. Every entry carries the real citation, the facts, the ratio and a one-line holding, drawn from BAILII, the Supreme Court and publicly available law reports. Statutes are seeded live from legislation.gov.uk, so the section you read on Obiter is the section currently in force, with amendments applied.

AI features sit on top of this database, not in front of it. When Obiter AI answers a question, when flashcards generate, when an essay prompt produces a model response, all of it draws only from the verified material below.

The guarantee

How Obiter stays grounded.

Three layers between
you and a wrong answer.

Verified case database

Built from authoritative UK sources: BAILII, official court judgments, and publicly available law reports. Every entry carries the real citation, facts, ratio and one-line holding, the judgment itself, not a paraphrase of a paraphrase.

Rules out: made-up case names and invented holdings.

Live legislation

UK statutes are pulled directly from legislation.gov.uk, the government's authoritative source. When you look up a section of the Human Rights Act, you're reading the real section, current wording, amendments applied.

Rules out: outdated language and repealed sections rendered as current.

AI grounded in that database

Obiter AI is retrieval-augmented: before answering, it pulls the relevant entries from the verified database and writes its response from those. If something isn't there, it says so instead of inventing it, and every answer shows its sources inline.

Rules out: confident fabrications and unsourced claims.

In practice

What this means when you're revising.

"What did Lord Atkin say in Donoghue v Stevenson?"

✗A generic chatbot may paraphrase the neighbour principle, or invent a supporting quote.

✓Obiter pulls the real Donoghue entry, shows the ratio, and links to the judgment.

"Is section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998 still in force?"

✗A generic chatbot answers from its training data, and may miss amendments.

✓Obiter returns the live text from legislation.gov.uk with its current in-force status.

"Give me a case where a contract was frustrated by government action."

✗A generic chatbot may invent a case name that sounds plausible.

✓Obiter returns real cases from the verified database, or tells you it can't find one.

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